Rare Pairings vs. Non-Rare Pairings, Round Two

[chimbomba.livejournal.com]

I've been noticing in some wishlists some pairings that are not rare, things such as Draco/Hermione. I'm not really sure how this is happening since we are called Rare Pair Shorts. I didn't think I needed to stress that your wishlists must consist of RARE PAIRS ONLY.

If your wishlist contains a non-rare pairing, I will tell you, and you will need to edit your wishlist accordingly.

However, all this did get me thinking. We have a list of things we consider non-rare and therefore not acceptable at this community, and over time we've been getting some questions about a few pairings. We the mods are starting to get iffy about a few of them ourselves, so we figured it might be best to put it to vote.

If you consider any of the following pairings RARE, mark YES. If you think they are NOT RARE, mark NO.

If there are any pairings you feel need to be ADDED to our list, write those in the text entry box. [ETA: THAT MEANS DON'T PUT DOWN PAIRINGS THAT ARE ALREADY ON OUR LIST.] If there are any pairings you feel need to be REMOVED from our list and have not been discussed in this post, please LEAVE A COMMENT.

Thanks for your help! :)



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ETA: The poll has been fixed. ;)

Comments

[chimbomba.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks for taking the time to look all this up. This is very helpful. :)

[terravayne.livejournal.com]

James/Lily - It has 619 pages of fic devoted to it on FF.net and an active comm. For the same reasons as Harry/Luna, I say I don't know.

619? That's almost 15 times more fic than Harry/Luna. Why would you consider this possibly rare?

As for Draco/Ginny, there are several active comms for it and it has a couple of websites hosting hundreds of fics dedicated specifically to D/G. I call "not rare."

[royalty25.livejournal.com]

As I'm reading through your long list and I applaud you on compiling it. I have to wonder if you've considered the fact that there are people out there that consider canon "not rare". So if we follow that logic, which I know many people do think this way, then that would make Draco/Pansy, Harry/Ginny, James/Lily and Lucius/Narcissa not rare.

[gryff-slytherin.livejournal.com]

I guess Teddy/Victoire can be considered in between and when pushed, rare. In addition to the ones that you've mentioned at FF.net and @teddy_victoire, there are eight pages / 180 stories (http://www.harrypotterfanfiction.com/storysearch.php?char1=0&char2=0&pair=38&mpair=1&era=0&genre=0&rating=0&fm=0&status=&ttsearch=&ausearch=&submit=Find+Stories) listed at HPFF and another comm (@teddyxvictoire) that hasn't been updated in months. There are also some Teddy/Victoire fics listed at allthings_teddy and at (http://community.livejournal.com/hp_tng/tag/teddy/victoire) hp_tng.

[gryff-slytherin.livejournal.com]

Also, I guess I've read a lot of fics that have Teddy/Victoire together but are not the central pairing. At first I thought it was rare because there were a lot of fics listed there at HPFF.

[mariem-1.livejournal.com]

James/Lily has 670 pages and Snape/Lily has 84 pages of fic on ff.net, actually, because of the creation of "Lily Luna P." character category and later switch of the fics between "Lily Luna P." and "Lily Evans P.". All fics in James Potter/Lily Luna Potter category (50 pages) and all fics except 1 (8 pages) in Severus Snape/Lily Luna Potter category are in reality JP/LE ans SS/LE. You can check that yourself.